NVIDIA GeForce 940M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 940M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

-

1098 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

512

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

35.14 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

1124 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

35.14 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16S-GT1-KB-B

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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